361 Quotes by Jennifer Egan

Sasha's green eyes were right up against yours, the lashes interlocking. "In Naples," she said, "there were kids who were just lost. You knew they were never going to get back to what they'd been, or have a normal life. And then there were other ones who you thought, maybe they will."...You opened your eyes, which you hadn't realized were shut again. "what I'm saying is, We're the survivors," Sasha said...."Not everyone is. But we are. Okay?

It's finished. Everything went past, without me.

...our familiar features rinsed in weird adulthood.

So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.

Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.

Sie sehnte sich stattdessen nach dem Elan und der Zielstrebigkeit, die alle anderen Menschen in der Forty-second Street zu beflügeln schienen: Gruppen lachender Matrosen; Mädchen mit angelegten, eingesprühten Haaren; ältere Paare, die Damen im Pelz - alle eilten im Dämmerlicht dahin. Anna betrachtete sie forschend. Woher wussten sie, wohin es ging?

Du bist gesund, meinte er. Morgen sagst du mir, wohin ich dich bringen soll.

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.